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The unmaking of Blackpool

Authors: Dace Dzenovska

Types: Observations, Visual Essays

Location: United Kingdom

Themes: Mobility, Poverty, Tourism

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‘Nothingness’, migrants and de-bordering: effects of post-Soviet conflicts on a small Armenian town

Authors: Maria Gunko

Types: Ethnography, History, Observations

Location: Armenia

Themes: Affect, Infrastructure, Materiality, Migration, Nothingness, Postsocialism, War

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Cities and emptiness

Authors: Liviu Chelcea

Types: Concepts, Guest Contributions, Observations

Location: Romania

Themes: Deindustrialization, Materiality, Meaning, The City

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Extended extractivism: the production of an operational landscape in Eastern Germany

Authors: Friederike Pank

Types: Concepts, Ethnography, Observations

Location: Germany

Themes: Extractivism, Infrastructure, Postsocialism, Space, The Rural

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Field visit to Romania: buildings in waiting

Authors: Dace Dzenovska

Types: Observations

Location: Romania

Themes: Infrastructure, Postsocialism, The City, The Future

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Saving Teriberka: how urbanites are remaking a ‘depressed’ region

Authors: Ksenia Gawrilova

Types: Guest Contributions, Observations

Location: Russia

Themes: Capitalism, Meaning, Representation, The Rural

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Destruction of signs, signs of destruction

Authors: Volodymyr Artiukh

Types: Observations

Location: Russia, Ukraine

Themes: Representations, War

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Good roads, bad fences

Authors: Volodymyr Artiukh

Types: Concepts, Ethnography, Observations

Location: Latvia, Ukraine

Themes: Abandoned houses, Materiality, The Countryside

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‘Unboxing’ capitalist incorporation: reflections from Eastern Germany

Authors: Friederike Pank

Types: Observations

Location: Germany

Themes: Capitalism, Postsocialism

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On disintegration in a Russian company town

Authors: Maria Gunko

Types: Ethnography, Observations

Location: Russia

Themes: Capitalism, Infrastructure, Order, Space

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Out of the frying pan and into the fire: travelling between post-Soviet crises

Authors: Volodymyr Artiukh

Types: Observations

Location: Belarus, Ukraine

Themes: Migration, Political protests, Populism, State Capitalism

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Going to the country: mobility and space in the time of a pandemic

Authors: Dace Dzenovska

Types: Observations

Location: Latvia, Russia

Themes: Mobility, The Countryside

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